Indie News: February 4th
Nigoro: A teaser for GR3 Project's new flash game was posted on their development journal.
Braid: Another lecture presented at the Nordic Game Jam is now available as a MP3 download from J. Blow's site.
Press
Eurogamer: Kieron Gillen briefly reviews all of the IGF finalists. (source: GameSetWatch)
MTV News: A couple of indie games (N+, de Blob and Braid) mentioned in Multiplayer's Top 10 Under the Radar Games in 2008 article. (source: GameSetWatch)
Interviews
Goo Interview: Gamasutra gives Pillowfort Games' Tommy Refenes the third degree.
Bit Blot: Curiosoft interviews Alec Holowka. (more interviews)
Releases
Kloonigames: Petri releases a new shmup.
AtomHex: Mark Incitti's upcoming arena shooter will be released this year. The new Tempest remake is a recent addition to his site. (AtomHex preview)
Space Hulk: The Allegro remake of this classic board game will be released in the first half of February.
Miscellaneous
Katakijin: Updated version for this GM hack and slash platformer now available for download.
PD Roms Coding Compo: A four color competition which started last week, and ends on March 2nd 2008.
Tormishire: New trailer for James Whitehead's upcoming platformer posted.
70 Gametap Free Games: A list of ad-supported free games offered on GameTap, supplied again by GameSetWatch.
Comments
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Posted by: Troy RULES | February 4, 2008 11:17 PM
Amazing as always Tim. I had Space Hulk boardgame many years ago.. :)
The dices had something wrong.. ;)
Posted by: FireSword | February 5, 2008 1:23 AM
Is that Game Tap thing ABSOLUTELY free as long as I watch some ads...or one of those that's-how-they-get'cha things?
Posted by: Splinter of Chaos | February 5, 2008 4:15 AM
It would be so cool if someone would make some picks from the lesser known (i.e. indie) games being given away for free on gametap, if there are any great ones there. For now, I'm downloading Psychonauts.
Posted by: valzi | February 5, 2008 4:21 AM
Shouldn't it be "Indie News: February 5th" instead of January? :P
Posted by: DFuzzy1 | February 5, 2008 5:57 AM
Yet another Space Hulk? Well, at least this one looks better than others...
Posted by: Gr.Viper | February 5, 2008 6:22 AM
As far as I know, there's absolutely no 'watch ads and we'll let you play' stuff on the free Gametap titles. They're basically 100% free games as a taster for the full service.
I know it's very not-indie, but I wholeheartedly reccomend Gametap. When I subscribed, it was $60 for a year. $5 monthly (effectively) for new games every week, some of them brand new (Tomb Raider Anniversary and Jericho were there on their retail launch-days) isn't to be sniffed at.
Oh, and they've got a bunch of indie games too. They recently signed Moonpod, so there's Starscape and Mr Robot on there. Battlefront, too, so you've got Dropteam on there as well, which is a great little indie future-tank-sim.
Man, I sound like an advert here now, don't I? Guess that's how much I reccomend the service, really.
Posted by: Dominic White | February 5, 2008 10:40 AM
There are 2 problems with gametap (as far as i know) you have to install their player (similar to Steam) and the games are single player only, no multiplayer.. apart that you have 70 free games..
Posted by: FireSword | February 5, 2008 1:27 PM
Well, there's no real alternative to having a player/launcher. Anything else would be a gigantic flashing neon sign saying 'WAREZ PARTY HERE'.
For what its worth, the Gametap player app is a helluva lot better now than it used to be. More organized, cleaner, less random flashy pictures and video.
As for the singleplayer issue? Half-true. As they point out, the emulated arcade games are all playable online. As for PC games, I'd say about 50% of them have functioning multiplayer - a lot of the older ones require CD-keys which Gametap just can't generate them selves, and publishers apparently didn't want to come up with either.
Quite a lot of games *do* work multiplayer though. You just have to check. They're not officially supported online though, so if you do have any tech trouble, it's not Gametaps problem.
Posted by: Dominic White | February 5, 2008 1:49 PM
Another one for press: Riff - Everyday Shooter appeared in the Metro newspaper of 24/01 here. A scan of the article and a translation of it to English are pending acceptance.
Posted by: Kon-Tiki | February 5, 2008 11:19 PM
DFuzzy1: Thanks for the correction. :)
Posted by: Tim | February 7, 2008 4:50 PM